This website for shop owners along the B63 – uses our tracking data to power a display that can sit in shopkeeper’s windows along the route

Speaking of waiting for buses: LA’s bus bench contractor is allegedly taking its benches back after bailing of its contract, leaving hundreds just standing around, waiting for the bus.

Allentown’s LANta’s bus system introduces a new numbering scheme which categorizies types of service into blocks of 100’s. Is it a user friendly scheme? An easy to understand and rational system? Will it improve the individual’s recollection and understanding of the system? Or is it just good for the scheduling department?

Remember the bus bell cord went away? And then how it came back? And how the New York Times wrote about it’s triumphant return.

Bus Drivers are getting the respect they deserve – 67% of New Yorkers believe that bus drivers are respectful on the road. A much smaller number feels the same towards taxi drivers and motorists. Bus drivers have a tough job and the wide majority do it flawlessly everyday – having to make all those stops? People keep ringing the bell!

Off topic chat (quite frankly, there isn’t that much news about buses so we’ll have to talk about trains now) This Amtrak tra(c)king website, is wonderfully low-tech, amazingly informative and a pleasure to use. Its a testament to reductive and simple designs working well. Check out these views: train schedule, & train location. It pulls open data from Amtrak’s website. Cheers to Dixieland software.